David Geary's Weblog<p>I'll scratch a hole in my life<br/>So everyone can see<p>NFJS 2006 Tour Kicks Off In Milwaukee- February 27, 2006 The 2006 NFJS tour kicked off this weekend in Milwaukee, and this was hands-down the best show I've been to yet (and I've been to a lot: around 50 symposiums in the past 3 yrs). It was great to see all my old comrades from the tour. Three-plus months is a long time without seeing any of them and I've missed hanging out with this incredibly talented group of truly great people. Stuart Halloway, Bruce Tate, Dave Thomas, Venkat Subramaniam (pronounced Superman) and yours truly started the...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/nfjs_2006_tour_kicks_off Maven Rocks- February 4, 2006 Since I'm lucky enough to reside in both the Rails and JSF worlds simultaneously, I often get asked what we can do in Java to reap some of the benefits of Rails. I had no idea until recently, but Maven&8212;especially Maven 2&8212;is a heck of a good start. Maven has been on my list of things to learn for awhile, but it's never made it to the top until I experienced a Maven confluence of sorts, when Shale added Maven support and a client handed me an application built with Maven. Maven,...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/maven_rocks |